OCZ'z Vertex 3 Pro Demo: World's First SandForce SF-2000
by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 5, 2011 9:37 PM ESTOCZ Z-Drive R3
OCZ also demonstrated the new Z-Drive R3, a PCIe SSD with four SF-1500 controllers behind a Marvell RAID controller. The end result is the performance of four SandForce SSDs in RAID-0 on a single half-height PCIe card:
OCZ ran a quick run of ATTO on the Z-Drive R3 at the show, showing peak reads/writes of 1GB/s.
New 3.5” Chassis
OCZ also demonstrated a new, slimmer chassis for its 3.5” SSDs like the Vertex 2 and Agility 2:
On the other end of the spectrum, OCZ presented an even bigger (physically) drive: the IBIS XL. Now this isn’t going to be productized, but it’s simply something to test the waters with. The IBIS XL fits into a standard 5.25” drive by and starts at 4TB.
Speaking of IBIS, OCZ plans to bring an optical version of the IBIS’ HSDL interface to the market. OCZ didn’t have a live demo of optical HSDL, but here’s a shot of an optical HSDL card:
Unfortunately OCZ has yet to convince any motherboard makers to implement HSDL ports on boards, so at this point the standard continues to be quite limited.
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DoktorSleepless - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
"50-400gb usable"Well, that's really disappointing. I was hoping for the 60-480 scheme from the current drives.
vol7ron - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
I think you touched on something I wanted to bring up.I care less about how much manufacturers are using to make their drives work/perform and more about what can actually be used. The 50-400 is the important number and the one I urge companies to start using, uniformly. The other number should just be left in the specs for enthusiasts consideration.
strikeback03 - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
Maybe with 25nm NAND they will go back to more spare area, but I wouldn't be surprised if the first drives out are more enterprise focused and have more spare area, like the SF-1200/1500 launch. Then maybe drives with less spare area would come later.iwodo - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
Once again we have Raw performance numbers.Tell me how an Toshiba SSD with lower Seq / Random Read Write numbers manage to beat an Sandforce or Intel SSD then we will start talking.
Impressive as they may sound, i would like to see some real Anand benchmark before i make the judgement.
probedb - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
Did you miss the "very, *very* early silicon and hardware"?BugblatterIII - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
We've seen before that the larger drives have far better performance due to their greater number of banks. Was it the 512GB drive you tested?semo - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
Interested about that too. The C400 for example seems still a mediocre SSD by today's standards at 64GB."both Micron and Intel beating it to the punch" -- We know that the Micron/Crucials are coming out soon from your previous article but not sure what's the latest on the Intels
"OCZ also demonstrated a new, slimmer chassis for its 3.5” SSDs like the Vertex 2 and Agility 2" -- Did you mean 2.5"? I guess they would be 7mm high?
"Obviously to hit these speeds you obviously need a 6Gbps controller" -- obviously :)
jonup - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
No, Anand meant 3.5" SSDs. These have been available for a while now. They are slimmer than 3.5" but fit in the normal 3.5" holes. I have the suspicion that you can fit two of these in a single 3.5" bay because of how thin they are, but I have not tested it since I have played around with only one.semo - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
Thanks didn't know that. I thought only the IBIS and colossus were available in 3.5"vol7ron - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
"I have the suspicion that you can fit two of these in a single 3.5" bay because of how thin they are"I'm sure you could, but are there any heat concerns?